Tag: Revival Prayer

A group of Christians from several churches gathered at Ebenezer on Saturday 9 April to pray that God would revive his church in this country. Pastor Steve Packham of Southern Cross Evangelical Church spoke about how as a young man he had gone to a meeting to encourage evangelism. As he and his friends came out they were fired up to start going out to talk to people about Jesus. They decided they couldn’t do it straight away as they had commitments and then it was Christmas so it would be a very busy time sot it would be best not to bother people until after that. The upshot was nothing ever got done. His point was that the church in general has no zeal or urgency to reach the lost. We are surrounded by people who need the Lord but we are mostly concerned with our own lives.

We must pray that The Lord will revive his church and that means us as individuals. We need to be restored to our first love so that are like our Saviour whose delight was to do his Father’s will and who was full of compassion for those around Him. We cannot muster these things up within ourselves we need the work of the Holy Spirit to turn us and we will be turned.

“If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from there wicked ways then I will hear them” 2 Chron 7 v14.

Everyone in the meeting prayed and there was a unity of purpose in our prayer. We need the Lord to work powerfully if the church is to be enlivened and the nation changed. We pray in faith and know these things re possible because God has done it before and it is encouraging to read about the Methodist revival and the 1859 revival. God can do great things with ordinary people like us.

We closed the meeting with a hymn and pray that The Lord will answer our prayer.